Swearing is fun because it’s naughty and lazy, a way to compress strong emotion (and funny to the degree unexpected)
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This is exactly why it’s almost always a mistake in fiction writing - authors imagine swearing can have the same function but it can’t
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It’s a jarring and lazy admission that you can’t be bothered to set up strong emotion without shorthand
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Almost as jarring as when a character notes something in the fictional world is “like a bad novel” or “like a bad TV show”
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